Bug#975003: mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

[Jan Korbel]

Hello.

Older versions of binary packages:

https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/libmount1/
https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/mount/

It works for me and davfs. For autofs/cifs have to reboot probably.

Regards,

JK

Bug#975003: mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

[Adam Williamson]

I think this has been reported and fixed in util-linux:
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1193
Updating Fedora to the util-linux with that fix backported seems to fix
the issue for me.
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Bug#975003: mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: reassign -1 cifs-utils

Reassigning to cifs-utils, as mount.cifs probably needs updating for
this.

* mc36  [201117 21:09]:
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.36.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> i rebooted my sid today and noticed that my cifs mounts from fstab not came 
> up.
> dmesg indicates " Unknown mount option "symfollow" ".
> manually mounting them (sudo mount.cifs //mount /point -o opts) did the trick.
> nevertheless to note that it's the first time this happened.
> 
> [   50.143880] CIFS: Attempting to mount //devel.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
> [   50.143902] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
> [   50.146561] CIFS: Attempting to mount //nas.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
> [   50.146578] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Bug#975003: mount refuses to mount cifs from fstab with Unknown mount option "symfollow"

[mc36]

Package: mount
Version: 2.36.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

i rebooted my sid today and noticed that my cifs mounts from fstab not came up.
dmesg indicates " Unknown mount option "symfollow" ".
manually mounting them (sudo mount.cifs //mount /point -o opts) did the trick.
nevertheless to note that it's the first time this happened.

[   50.143880] CIFS: Attempting to mount //devel.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
[   50.143902] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"
[   50.146561] CIFS: Attempting to mount //nas.mchome.nop.hu/mc36
[   50.146578] CIFS: Unknown mount option "symfollow"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii  libblkid1  2.36.1-1
ii  libc6  2.31-4
ii  libmount1  2.36.1-1
ii  libsmartcols1  2.36.1-1
ii  util-linux 2.36.1-1

mount recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mount suggests:
ii  nfs-common  1:1.3.4-4

-- no debconf information